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CMA Gala – Tomorrow Night Is the Night!

Saturday, December 4 | 7:00 – 11:00 p.m. 

Join us to celebrate and support the arts, particularly the major exhibition 30 Americans, featuring the work of acclaimed contemporary Black artists.

Featuring delicious small plates by Loosh Culinaire and libations by Twist Bartending, plus specialty cocktails by Olando "Opie" Patterson of Goat’s. Entertainment by Reggie Sullivan and the Congaree Saints and DJs Lady Marauder and Preach Jacobs.

Explore different worlds throughout the night with spaces inspired by works in the exhibition, like a champagne lounge inspired by Mickalene Thomas, specialty food and drink on Boyd Plaza inspired by the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and a glitzy hip hop club experience inspired by the Gala's pièce de résistance, Kehinde Wiley's nine-foot-tall Equestrian Portrait of the Count Duke Olivares. Learn more.

30 Americans: From Canvas to Score

Sunday, December 5 | 3:00 p.m.

The UofSC School of Music’s Bridging Our Distances social and civic justice initiative and the CMA present a creative collaboration transforming visual art into sound. Eighteen student, alumni, and faculty composers from the School of Music’s Composition Department debut new pieces inspired by selected works from the powerful exhibition 30 Americans. The creative process culminates in live performances by three outstanding UofSC graduate ensembles, the New Sounds Trio (strings), the Fuse Ensemble (winds), and The Collective (mixed). Learn more.

CMA Chamber Music on Main

Tuesday, December 7 | Happy hour at 6:00 p.m. | Concert at 7:00 p.m. | Galleries open during happy hour

Artistic Director Andrew Armstrong brings together an impressive group of artists for the second concert of this year’s series: Gabriela Diaz and Michi Wiancko on violin, Ayane Kozasa on viola, and CMA Chamber favorite Ani Aznavoorian on cello. Enjoy a melodic evening of songs for two violins, solo piano, piano and violin, viola and cello, and a brilliant piano quintet finale featuring all five musicians. Presented by Bank of America Private Bank.  Learn more.

ArtBreak: Black Male Studies and Contemporary Black Art

Thursday, December 9 | 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Happy hour at 5:00 p.m. | Galleries open until 8:00 p.m.

The nascent field of Black male studies has revolutionized African American studies with its philosophical and archival focus on the victimization of Black men. Black maleness, according to this field, must be considered a site of sexual victimhood, torture, abjection, and violent death, rather than a site of a presumptive extension of white male privilege and hegemonic masculinity. For this ArtBreak, Dr. Seulghee Lee, assistant professor of African American studies at the University of South Carolina, presents connections between Black male studies and several of the pieces in 30 Americans, including works by Barkley L. Hendricks, Rashid Johnson, Henry Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, and Kehinde Wiley. Learn more.

Winter Workshops

Monday and Tuesday, December 20 and 21 

Celebrate winter at the CMA with two-day workshops just for kids. They're selling out fast, so reserve your spot now!

 

• Holiday Hop

  Ages 4 – 7 | 9:00 a.m. – Noon

   

• Exploring Altered Books

  Ages 8 – 12 | 9:00 a.m. – Noon

   

• Mixed-Media Marvels

  Ages 8 – 12 | 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Learn more.

 Kehinde Wiley

 Born in Los Angeles, CA, 1977  |  Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Equestrian Portrait of the Count Duke Olivares (detail), 2005

 Oil on canvas, 108 x 108 in. (274.3 x 274.3 cm)

 © Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy Rubell Museum, Miami

 Robert Colescott

Ode to Joy (European Anthem), 1997

 Acrylic on canvas

 90 x 114 in. (228.6 x 289.5 cm)

 © Robert Colescott. Courtesy Rubell Museum, MiamiCopyright © 2021 Columbia Museum of Art, All rights reserved.